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#148 Pavlina Tcherneva: Why The Job Guarantee Is Core To Modern Monetary Theory

The MMT Podcast with Patricia Pino & Christian Reilly

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The Job Guarantee Is Anti-Cyclic

The job guarantee is anti-cyclical because of the way private sector behaves, he says. "We don't have depressions every 20 years anymore interspersed with little recessions" The public program's contribution to the economy diminishes when the economy is growing,. So it has a disinflationary effect and spending on employment is always at the right level.

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